NEW: Before cryptobillionaire Christopher Harborne gave £5m to @nigel_farage, he gave £1m to Boris Johnson. For what??

Today @nerve_news reveals new evidence that tracks Harborne's investments in defence firm QinetiQ...to key defence announcements from Boris Johnson.
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Christopher Harborne's £5m gift to Farage is now the subject of a parliamentary inquiry.

But our latest story in #HarborneReceipts raises incredibly serious qs including...did Boris Johnson give Harborne classified defence info he then profited from?
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In early 2022, Harborne switched his donations to the Tories giving first £500k then on May 6, another £500k.

It wasn't his only transaction that day. UK defence firm, QinetiQ 3% issued a notice that he now owned 3%.

The next day, he spent hours with Johnson at Chequers.
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1/ In 2020, Calla Walsh was a 16-year-old political prodigy and the face of the “Markeyverse,” credited by the NYT with helping a US Senator win his primary.

In 2026, she’s in Beirut, on Iranian state TV, chanting “Death to America.”

How does that happen? And more importantly, why is this such an important topic right now for American political discourse and how it is shaping the radicalization of our country.

This is the story of the pipeline that carried her. And it’s a much more dangerous story that applies to much bigger national security threats than anybody is talking about. 🧵

2/ Calla Walsh was raised near Harvard Square, the daughter of a Boston University professor and a Harvard Extension instructor, educated at the Winsor School one of Boston’s most elite private academies.

At 15 she volunteered for Elizabeth Warren’s presidential campaign; at 16 she was a digital operative on Ed Markey’s Senate re-election, where the New York Times credited her with driving the youth vote the celebrated “Markeyverse”.

NPR called her a progressive organizer; Boston media hailed the Gen Z takeover of local politics. People who worked alongside her assumed they were watching a future campaign manager, maybe a future candidate.

Six years later she stood on a stage in Tehran, at a festival organized by Iranian state broadcasting, chanting “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” on state television. She poses with IRGC missiles, works as a regular contributor to Press TV, lives in Beirut posting what the Boston Globe describes as a daily stream of Hezbollah propaganda, and greeted the assassination of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington by asking why “there weren’t 100 more Elias Rodriguezes”.

3/ She isn’t a marginal figure who slipped through the cracks she was the center of the system, its showcase. And she isn’t an aberration, because every piece of infrastructure that carried her is still operating today, at scale, legally.

In 2021 she became the youngest delegate at the Democratic Socialists of America’s national convention and left the organization that same year over its “Zionism”.

The DSA, the leftmost significant organization in American politics was insufficiently anti-Israel for a 17-year-old from Cambridge. By 2022 she’d abandoned electoral politics entirely after breaking with Markey over Israel; by 2023 she identified as a communist. And she has named her own accelerant, and it wasn’t a book or a lecture: “being in the streets” during the 2020 riots “was truly the most radicalizing thing that ever happened to me… I was in the streets realizing, ‘Oh, we have to fight the police.”

Anyone designing a counter-radicalization strategy aimed at foreign influence or online jihadist content would have missed her completely, because at this point in the story she hasn’t encountered either.

“Why is Allah testing me like this?”

The answer to this question has already been revealed in the Qur’an.

Not every tear can be explained.

Some wounds are known only to Allah.

Some du’as are whispered every night, yet the answer has not arrived.

Some hopes are built over years, only to shatter in a single moment.

In moments like these, many hearts ask:

Allah says:

“Perhaps you dislike something while it is good for you, and perhaps you love something while it is bad for you. Allah knows, while you do not know.” (Quran 2:216)

Not everything we pursue is truly good for us, and not everything we lose is a misfortune.

Roger Froikin @rlefraim wrote, "It cannot be denied that there are well-financed missionary activities directed at converting Jews, both in Israel and the Diaspora.
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When Jews discuss this, everyone agrees that it is a problem, but there is no consensus as to how serious they see the problem to be. The degree of concern ranges from those who want laws passed outlawing missionaries and
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their activities to those Jews who fear dealing with the whole subject because they fear Christians might get upset by any opposition to proselytization efforts.

But I want to say this, and say it clearly. There is no need for missionary-phobia.
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Did Peter Beck just torch $8B on a dying satphone company? Or pull off the smartest spectrum grab in the space race?
Lot of split takes on the $RKLB –Iridium deal right now. So I spent this morning digging in and forming my own view.
I think the bears have it backwards. And it's quietly good for $ASTS too. 🧵

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First thing to get straight: Rocket Lab didn't buy a phone company. They bought spectrum.
Beck basically said it himself. All the rockets in the hangar and all the satellites you want mean nothing if you don't have spectrum you can actually use.
Globally coordinated L-band is rare and takes years of regulatory grinding to get, with no guarantee you win. Iridium already holds it.

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IMO, It's a masterstroke.
You can build a satellite. You can build a rocket. You cannot build spectrum. It's finite. Nobody's making more of it.
Grabbing globally harmonized L-band right now, before everyone's fighting over it, is like buying beachfront before the coast got developed.
Or bitcoin before your barber was talking about it.

Khodorkovsky [former Russian oligarch brought down by Putin]:

Three large groups have formed in Russian society: 15% westernizers, 15% war beneficiaries who think Putin is not aggressive enough, and 70% who want the war to stop but on their terms, meaning Russia has not lost. 1/

Khodorkovsky: For Putin, Russian society is the foundation of his power over the security structures.
If society stops supporting him, his only support will be the secret services, and he will become dependent on them. He does not want this. 2/

Khodorkovsky: The Kremlin has two towers: secret services, mainly the FSB as secret police, and civilian bureaucrats who want to preserve Putin’s power with fewer repressions. They fight for resources. There are no good people among them. 3/

Russia made 144 UAV sorties into European airspace over 19 months across more than a dozen NATO countries and Ireland.

The campaign mapped NATO air-defense gaps, often near ports, airports, energy sites and military bases — FT. 1/

The campaign had no collective allied response.

Governments treated drone sightings as separate national incidents.

Some were reluctant to accuse Russia directly, even when the pattern pointed to coordinated activity. 2/

The most visible case was Poland in September 2025.

24 drones entered Polish airspace.
Some were shot down by NATO. Other incidents were harder to attribute but fit the wider pattern. 3/

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📰 Here's your round-up of top #CarbonDioxideRemoval News / Developments from this week (29 June - 05 July 2026):

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Vietnam's Net Zero Challenge, the country's largest climate technology innovation competition, has opened applications for its fourth edition, offering over $800,000 in prizes. Applications close 31 August.
netzerochallenge.vn

Spain awarded €119.6 million to Votorantim Cementos España for CO₂ capture infrastructure to support carbon-neutral concrete by 2050.
gasworld.com/story/spain-aw…

InSoil secured a $137 million credit facility to expand financing for regenerative agriculture across Europe
insoil.com/blog/2026/06/3…

Mati Carbon received 717 CORCs under the Puro Standard for enhanced rock weathering at its facility in Chhattisgarh, India.
mati.earth/articles/what-…

Deep Sky delivered North America's first certified DAC carbon removal credits to Microsoft and RBC, verified and registered by Isometric.
deepskyclimate.com/blog/deep-sky-…

Amazon agreed to buy nearly 2 million tonnes of carbon removal credits from a South African restoration project.
esgtoday.com/amazon-signs-2…

Dutch direct ocean capture startup SeaO2 has filed for bankruptcy after failing to secure funding.
linkedin.com/posts/seao2-io…

Ucaneo opened Germany's first DAC plant integrated with carbon storage in Berlin, with capacity to capture 150 tonnes of CO₂ annually ahead of a larger commercial facility planned for 2027.
linkedin.com/posts/ucaneo_c…

Verde Resources and Ergon signed a 10-year agreement to deploy biochar in US road paving.
worldbiomarketinsights.com/verde-and-ergo…

Researchers from Germany's €33 million CDRterra programme are advancing engineered and land-based carbon removal technologies.
cdrterra.de/en/news/genera…

Isometric issued 21,771 reforestation carbon credits to a Mombak project, marking the first for both companies.
isometric.com/writing-articl…

Rainbow approved a biogenic carbon capture and storage (BioCCS) carbon credit methodology aligned with the CRCF.
docs.rainbowstandard.io/methodologies/…

Vietnam earned $56.5 million from forest carbon credit sales to the World Bank.
en.vietnamplus.vn/vietnam-earns-…

Carbonyx selected Isometric to certify carbon removal credits from its British Columbia mineralization project.
linkedin.com/posts/we-belie…

goodcarbon launched an RFI to source up to 520,000 nature-based carbon removal credits on behalf of a German enterprise, with submissions due 10 July.
resources.goodcarbon.earth/blog/goodcarbo…

The Nordic Carbon Removal Association and partners released a report calling CDR a key pillar of Denmark's climate strategy.
nordiccarbon.org/ncra_resource/…

American University's Institute for Responsible Carbon Removal published a study on using EU ETS revenues to scale carbon removal in Europe.
american.edu/sis/centers/ca…

A new report commissioned by Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU examined perspectives on Switzerland's net-negative emissions target after 2050.
bafu.admin.ch/dam/de/sd-web/…

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🔴⁉️Why do you keep getting SIBO or dysbiosis again and again?
Why does it feel like nothing sits well anymore?

Maybe the problem is not only what you eat.

Maybe the problem is what is happening in your gut barrier, immune system, mast cells, motility and microbiota.

Read this.👇🏻

Gut symptoms in chronic illness are not always “just SIBO” or “just dysbiosis”.

Low FODMAP is a dietary strategy.

Sometimes it helps because it reduces fermentable substrates for bacteria.

But it does not explain every food reaction.

And it does not necessarily fix the root mechanism.

This distinction matters a lot in Long COVID, ME/CFS, autoimmune diseases and other chronic inflammatory conditions.

Many patients are told:

“You have bloating because of SIBO.”

“You have dysbiosis.”

“Just try low FODMAP.”

But the gut is usually more complex than that.

SIBO means small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.

In simple terms: too many bacteria are present in the small intestine, where they should not be in high numbers.

Then carbohydrates can ferment too early.

That can cause:

gas, bloating, pain, diarrhea, constipation, reflux, pressure, motility changes.

Dysbiosis means an altered microbial ecosystem.

More of some microbes.
Less of others.
Different metabolites.
Different immune signals.

SIBO and dysbiosis are real.

But they are not always the first event.

One mistake is assuming:

“we found dysbiosis in autoimmune disease, therefore dysbiosis caused the disease.”

Sometimes it may contribute.

But very often, dysbiosis may be a consequence of a changed immune-mucosal environment.

If the immune system is chronically activated, the gut barrier changes.

If the mucosa is inflamed, the microbial environment changes.

If motility is altered, bacteria grow differently.

If stomach acid is low, more microbes survive.

If digestive enzymes are reduced, more food reaches bacteria undigested.

So the order is not always:

dysbiosis → disease.

Sometimes it is:

persistent antigen or pathogen

→ genetically susceptible host
→ chronic immune activation
→ mucosal inflammation
→ barrier dysfunction
→ altered motility and digestion
→ dysbiosis / SIBO
→ more fermentation
→ more inflammation.

This is especially relevant in Long COVID, ME/CFS and some autoimmune or post-infectious conditions.

The trigger may be viral persistence, herpesvirus reactivation, enteroviruses, intracellular pathogens, bacterial antigens or another chronic immune stimulus.

The host matters too.

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Some people may have HLA-II backgrounds that present certain pathogen-derived antigens in a way that favors stronger, longer or less regulated immune responses.

So the same infection may resolve in one person, but drive chronic inflammation in another.

The gut is not just a digestive tube.

It is one of the largest immune surfaces in the body.

The immune system and the intestinal barrier constantly regulate the microbiota.

So if immunity becomes chronically activated or dysregulated, mucosal tissues are often affected early.

Barrier function can weaken.

Tight junctions can become altered.

Mast cells can become more reactive.

Enterocytes can function worse.

Microbial products and food antigens can cross more easily.

And once the barrier is damaged, more inflammatory signals enter.

That creates a loop:

→ chronic immune activation
→ mucosal inflammation
→ barrier damage
→ more antigen exposure
→ more immune activation
→ more mast cell activation
→ more symptoms.

Inflammation does not only affect “immunity”.

It can also affect digestion.

If the intestinal mucosa is inflamed, enterocytes may express fewer enzymes needed to digest carbohydrates properly.

That can affect the digestion of disaccharides and polysaccharides.

Then more partially digested carbohydrates remain available for bacteria.

More substrate for bacteria means more fermentation.

This can worsen SIBO-like symptoms even if the original problem was not “too much bacteria” at the beginning.

So sometimes the sequence is not:

SIBO → symptoms.

Sometimes it is:

inflammation → reduced digestion → more bacterial substrate → dysbiosis / SIBO → symptoms.

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Low stomach acid can add another layer.

If inflammation affects the stomach, vagal/autonomic signaling or gastric function, some patients may develop hypochlorhydria.

Low stomach acid can mean:

worse protein digestion
more microbes surviving transit
more bloating
more reflux-like symptoms
more downstream fermentation
higher risk of dysbiosis / SIBO patterns.

So again, the gut problem may start upstream.

Not in the colon.

Not even in the small intestine.

But in immune inflammation, stomach function, autonomic dysfunction or mucosal injury.

Now, low FODMAP.

Low FODMAP can help when fermentation is the dominant problem.

It reduces fermentable carbohydrates.

That can reduce gas, bloating and pain in some patients.

But low FODMAP is not a root-cause explanation.

It does not fully address:

mast cell activation
histamine intolerance
amine sensitivity
barrier dysfunction
immune reactions to food antigens
dysautonomia
low stomach acid
poor bile flow
reduced digestive enzymes
chronic mucosal inflammation.

And if there is true SIBO, diet alone often is not enough.

Diet can reduce substrate.

But bacterial overgrowth usually needs targeted treatment, often with antibiotics or other antimicrobial strategies under medical supervision.

The choice matters.

Some antibiotics are poorly tolerated by chronic patients and may worsen symptoms.

Others may be better tolerated depending on the patient, the type of overgrowth and the clinical context.

So the question is not only:

“Which diet should I follow?”

It is also:

“What is driving the overgrowth?”

Poor motility?
Low stomach acid?
Inflammation?
Dysautonomia?
Immune dysfunction?
Persistent infection?
Barrier damage?

I'm neurodivergent and have a PhD in healthcare research.

Here are 13 things your body does automatically to regulate itself — that most people interrupt without realizing it:

1. Sighing: It's a physiological reset your body does when tension builds too high (most people suppress it, especially in professional settings).

2. Going quiet after too much social interaction.

Your body is trying to discharge social load.

Most people push through it, fill the silence, or feel guilty for needing it.

That quiet isn't antisocial. It's your nervous system asking for less input so it can come back down.

3. Staring into space.

Fixed, forward-facing eyes keep your system more activated than you realize.

Unfocused gaze is one of the ways your brain shifts out of high-alert mode.

Next time you catch yourself staring at nothing — let it happen.

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